We are starting to see the aftereffects of Obamacare starting to trickle down to patients, and there are some things that are both odd and curious. Obamacare goes full-blown in 2014, and in 2012 some doctors started the transition process by writing electronic prescriptions, but 2013 is already turning out to be the Big Obamacare Year of Change.
We all know sugar is terrible for us — sugar is The New White Devil — and yet we can’t seem to escape its granular grasp. We live in a sugary circle of feeling low, boosting our blood sugar with sugar and then crashing again. How can we escape this treacherous roundabout?
The medical community have felt for a long while that low serotonin levels in the brain lead to depression — but there are several problems with that belief — and new research suggests neurogenesis holds a truer key to cure.
Continue reading → Do Low Serotonin Levels Really Cause Depression?
Clinical Depression is a horrible, nasty, bit that can ruin people and destroy families. So many people are living in the gloom of depression without realizing they are so far into the depths that they cannot see there is a way out.
Late last night, New Jersey once again chose life over death by passing a medical marijuana bill.
We rely on words to define us. If we try to express a specific condition without the right words attached, we become lost and we are unable to clearly understand each other. While teaching one of my Public Health courses, a group discussion about clinical depression led us into an examination of the word “depression” and how the home cultures of some of the students’ parents did not allow, or define, the concept of “depression” in a serious, medical, sense.
If you are an American with health insurance, chances are greater than fifty percent that you are on a prescribed medication.
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